
There were very few laughs in this phlegmatic film adaptation of the Oliver LaFarge’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Laughing Boy. Read More »
Monthly Archives: August 2020
Laburnum Grove (1936) Carol Reed, Edmund Gwenn, Cedric Hardwicke, Victoria Hopper

Laburnum Grove is a suburb so dull one could actually hear the tomatoes grow in the gardens. Read More »
The Girl from Parma AKA La parmigiana (1963) Antonio Pietrangeli, Nino Manfredi, Catherine Spaak, Didi Perego

Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair Read More »
The Late Show (1977) Robert Benton, Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy

Ira Wells is an aged retired Los Angeles, California based private investigator comes out of retirement when a former partner Read More »
The Elephant God AKA Joi Baba Felunath (1979) Satyajit Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee, Parinita Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee

This is the second film about the detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) set in the holy city of Benares Read More »
Someone at the Door (1936) Herbert Brenon, Aileen Marson, Billy Milton, Noah Beery

A penniless brother and sister move back into their childhood home, a rundown country manor. Read More »
Saloon Bar (1940) Walter Forde, Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan, Mervyn Johns

Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord Read More »
Unholy Partners (1941) Mervyn LeRoy, Edward G. Robinson, Laraine Day, Edward Arnold

Newspaperman Bruce Corey returns from World War I with new ideas and wants to start his own tabloid. Read More »
Hostage (1983) Frank Shields, Kerry Mack, Ralph Schicha, Gabriella Barraket

Horrific true tale set in the late 70’s Australia about Christine Lewis, a naive 16 year old who in 1974 Read More »
The Canterville Ghost (1986) Paul Bogart, John Gielgud, Ted Wass, Andrea Marcovicci

A young American family of three inherits an English castle, only to find it haunted by the lively spirit of a disgraced ancestor Read More »